Quotes about lying
lying views perspective
The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition. Stephen Jay Gould
lying woke
When I woke up in the field, I didn't know how long I was lying there.
lying stories
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. Orson Scott Card
lying enders-game sometimes
Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.
lying boys men
I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la... Paul Simon
lying rain good-day
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been
lying believe stories
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
lying heart cutting
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
lying perspective lines
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.
lying knowing religion
The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science -or any honest intellectual inquiry.
lying foundation evolution
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
lying past quirky
Organisms [...] are directed and limited by their past. They must remain imperfect in their form and function, and to that extent unpredictable since they are not optimal machines. We cannot know their future with certainty, if only because a myriad of quirky functional shifts lie within the capacity of any feature, however well adapted to a present role.
lying talking
There he is, lying there. He was so motionless, talking the whole time. Jim Tressel
lying progress way
Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God. Billy Graham
lying weight triumph
THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN Joseph Goebbels
lying people internet
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. Kurt Vonnegut
lying owl bells
Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry William Shakespeare
lying men done
Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
lying night light
Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?
lying farewell gentleman
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.
lying years lasts
I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. Louis C. K.
lying years people
Unfortunately for the Iraqi people, instead of meeting these requirements, for six years, Saddam Hussein has lied, delayed, obstructed and tried to deceive Madeleine Albright
lying humanity flattery
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.
lying grace may
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
lying bait carp
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.
lying good-luck numbers
Good luck lies in odd numbers.
lying men may
There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
lying eye heart
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.
lying memorable feet
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
lying memorable faults
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
lying memorable way
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
lying memorable understanding
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
lying sassy half
Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?